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"Luk here," Jamie said, "I want t' laugh too. Now what th' is't yer gigglin' at?" I explained. He smiled and said: "Jazus, bhoy, that reminds me ov Anna, she cud say more funny things than aany wan I iver know'd." "And that reminds me," I said, "that the word you have just misused she always pronounced with a caress!" "Aye, I know rightly, but ye know I mane no harm, don't ye?"

It was ever the harbinger of the thing that was most indispensable in that home of want a cup of tea. Often it was tea without milk, sometimes without sugar, but always tea. If it came to a choice between tea and bread, we went without bread. Anna did not relish the reflection on her judgment and remained silent. There was a loud noise at the door. "Jazus!"

"I'm seein' things two at a time, b' Jazus!" he answered. "We've got plenty of nothin' but wather, maybe ye'd like a good dhrink, Billy?" Before he could reply the bogman raised himself to a half-sitting posture, and yelled with all the power of his lungs: "Whoa! back, ye dhirty baste, back!" The wild yell chilled the blood in our veins.

An old Irish apple-woman used to come into the barracks, and sit by the side of the parade ground with two baskets of apples and a box of chocolate. She did a roaring trade when we were dismissed from drill. We always addressed her as "Mother." She looked so witch-like that one day I asked "Can you tell a fortune, Mother?" "Lord-love-ye, no! Wad ye have the Cuss o' Jazus upon us all?